Experts in identifying promising drug candidates
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Thomas William and Frederick John MacWilliam Distinguished Professor Codirector, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 415-514-4313 |
chemical biology, protein-protein interactions, screening, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, neglected diseases |
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Codirector, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 415-514-9698 |
drug targeting technologies, iron in biology and disease, novel small molecule pharmacology, fragment-based lead discovery |
Administrators |
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Ninwe Maraha, PhD |
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Kazuko Olson |
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Senior scientists |
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Amos Espinosa |
drug discovery, high-throughput screening, cell-based assay development, toxicology, complex in vitro models |
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Priya Jaishankar, MS |
lead discovery and optimization for bacterial and viral disease |
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Greg Lee, PhD |
structural biology, protein NMR, protein biophysics, protein dynamics, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions |
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Jeff Neitz, PhD |
synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, neurodegenerative disease, cancer |
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Grace Pohan, MS Assistant Specialist [email protected] |
high-throughput screening, cell-based assay development, drug liver-induced injury, early stage drug discovery |
Postdoctoral scholars |
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Andrew Abrose, PhD |
drug discovery, molecular biology, HTS assay development, neurodegenerative disease, chemical biology |
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Ziwen Jiang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
chemical biology, protein-protein interactions |
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Markella Konstantinidou, PhD |
medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, multicomponent reactions, drug design |
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Yu-Hsuan Kuo, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
chemical biology, proteomics, protein-protein interactions |
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John Morrow, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
in silico drug discovery, cancer, protein-protein interactions, structural biology and dynamics, computational chemistry, high-performance computing |
Graduate students |
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Chad Altobelli |
genetic disorders, protein-protein interactions, structural biology, medicinal chemistry |
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Marcus Chin, MPhil |
high-throughput drug screening, Alzheimer’s disease, tau pathology |
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Dyana Kenanova CCB Graduate Student [email protected] |
protein-protein interactions, high throughput screening, metabolic disease, medicinal chemistry, and chemical biology
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Holly Vickery CCB Graduate Student [email protected] |
chemical biology, high-throughput screening, cancer biology, protein-protein interactions |
Former members
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May H. Abdelaziz, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX |
| Yassir Younis Adam, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | MyoKardia |
| Kenny Ang, PhD | Specialist | |
| Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota |
| Yuliya Birman | Graduate Student | Research Associate, Biodesy |
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Brian Blank, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
ORIC Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco |
| Clifford Bryant, MS | Specialist | |
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Stacie Bulfer, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Senior Scientist, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Lawrence, KS |
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Mark Burlingame, PhD |
Specialist |
UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility |
| Paul Burroughs | Staff Research Associate | |
| Sheng Chen, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
| Steven Chen | Specialist | GE |
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Jonathan Choy, PhD |
Graduate Student |
Sr. Scientist, Merck, South San Francisco, CA |
| Julia Davies | Senior Scientist | |
| Shubhankar Dutta, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
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Yao Fan, PhD |
Specialist |
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim |
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Shaun Fontaine, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholara |
Scientist, ProLynx LLC, San Francisco |
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Allejandra Gallardo-Godoy, PhD |
Specialist |
Senior Researcher, University of Queensland |
| Ken Hallenbeck | Graduate Student | Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech |
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Brian Hearn, PhD |
Specialist |
Associate Director, ProLynx LLC, San Francisco |
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Frantz Jean-Francois, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Scientist II, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD |
| Auke Koops | Graduate Student Intern | |
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Erica Lauterwasser, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Scientist, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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Sumit Mahajan, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Director, Drug Development, Globavir Biosciences, Los Altos, CA |
| Sarine Markossian, PhD | Specialist | |
| Daniel Medina-Cleghorn, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, Nurix Therapeutics |
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Connie Merron |
Specialist |
Informatics Specialist, Recombinant Antibody Network, UCSF |
| Joseph Mulvaney | Specialist |
Senior Software Engineer, Schrödinger, New York, NY |
| Maxime van den Oetelaar | Visitor Graduate | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Angela Reese | Associate Specialist | |
| Annet Saris | Graduate Student Intern | |
| Takeshi Shida, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
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Hiroki Shimizu PhD |
Visiting Scientist |
Research Scientist, Daichi Sankyo, Japan |
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Ben Spangler, PhD |
Graduate Student |
Postdoc, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research (NIBR) Emeryville, CA |
| Poulami Talukder, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, Tiba Biotech LLC, Cambridge, MA |
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Yinyan Tang, PhD |
Specialist |
Scientist, Nektar Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA |
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David Turner, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Research Scientist, Leidos, Frederick, MD |
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Kurt Van Horn, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Research Scientist, Cambrex |
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Punitha Vedantham, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Organic / Medicinal Chemistry Specialist Vibrant Sciences, Burlingame, CA |
| Chris Wilson, PhD | Associate Director | |
| Mengqi Zhong, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, REVOLUTION Medicines |